Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the integration of Red Hat Storage and Red
Hat OpenStack to provide customers with a proven storage and compute
solution with the benefit of being engineered and supported in concert
by one company. Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenStack give customers a
full-featured storage and compute solution today, a platform for
innovation tomorrow, and a smooth support experience during the journey
to open hybrid cloud.

Using Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenStack make it easier to deploy and
manage the enterprise and public cloud with its unified storage services
for OpenStack supporting Block Storage (Cinder), Image Service (Glance)
and Object Storage (Swift) from the same storage pool. Red Hat Storage
has the ability to run storage and compute services on the same physical
or virtual server to further reduce the cost of OpenStack
infrastructure. Red Hat’s open software-defined storage capabilities
that run exclusively in user space is a key enabler for future OpenStack
storage innovation like File-as-a-Service and Hadoop running on
OpenStack. Red Hat expects to be a catalyst in driving community-driven
innovation in these and other areas with the goal of delivering the best
functionality and user experience for enterprises deploying storage in
an open source cloud infrastructure.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat,
said, “Enterprise customers running mission-critical workloads on the
private cloud are interested in a Red Hat-engineered stack to make sure
their OpenStack cloud platform deployments are tightly integrated and
tested to work effectively right from the start. With Red Hat OpenStack
and Red Hat Storage, customers have the piece of mind that they are
implementing a proven enterprise solution today, designed for future
innovation, that is completely engineered and supported by one company –
Red Hat.”

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software
solutions, taking a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.

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